Global Climate Changes

[KAB Cats]

Punditry ruins everything.

What’s true: humans are wrecking balls to our environment. Thousands of studies find that humans do impact climate. We also **** up the environment 100 different ways on top of that.

What’s also true: human expansion into seaboard regions also means that every hurricane increases likelihood to costing human lives and money. Hurricanes could have the exact same rate as 100 years ago, but we should also expect damage even if the rate remains the same.

What’s also true: warming is generally better the cooling.

What’s also true: the longterm effects of climate change aren’t really known. Humans will be able to cope. However, we also have cities with hundred of millions of people ( probably even higher) worldwide. Changes to climate patterns and rising coastlines very well may real havoc on humanity.

From a personal aspect, I vacillate on the impact. I don’t really do anything to stop global warming. However, regardless of that, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

 

[*CatinIL*]

Thanks for the rain Hurricane Helene...we needed it here in Louisville, especially since it's been a quiet season so far.

 

[bigblueinsanity]

Punditry ruins everything

The irony.

 

[hmt5000]

Iirc they also spew more carbon dioxide into the air than decades if not centuries of human activity.

Has anyone thought to carbon tax volcanoes?

Yes. And because this volcano happened mostly under water we didn't have the particulate in the atmosphere to block IR sunlight. The water vapor acted to hold in heat and cause "heat indexes" to rise.

 

[hmt5000]

Thanks for the rain Hurricane Helene...we needed it here in Louisville, especially since it's been a quiet season so far.

Yea. We needed it all week and water just starting running off the yard today. The ground sucked up everything this week until today. LOL

 

[KAB Cats]

The irony.

It’s thicker than you realize

 

[GJNorman]

Four ways climate change likely made Hurricane Helene worse » Yale Climate Connections

Climate change makes the strongest hurricanes stronger, increases rainfall, increases storm surge damage through sea level rise, and increases the probability of rapid intensification events.

yaleclimateconnections.org

 

[GJNorman]

Helene’s landfall gives the U.S. a record eight Cat 4 or Cat 5 Atlantic hurricane landfalls in the past eight years (2017-2024), seven of them being continental U.S. landfalls. That’s as many Cat 4 and 5 landfalls as occurred in the prior 57 years. The only comparable beating the U.S. has taken from Category 4 and 5 landfalling hurricanes occurred in the six years from 1945 to 1950, when five Category 4 hurricanes hit South Florida.

With the U.S. taking such a beating from extreme hurricanes in recent years, it’s worth reviewing how climate change is contributing to making hurricanes worse.

Landfalling U.S. Cat 4s and 5s​

The eight Cat 4 and 5 landfalls since 2017: Harvey (2017 in Texas), Irma (2017 in Florida), Maria (2017 in Puerto Rico), Michael (2018 in Florida), Laura (2020 in Louisiana), Ida (2021 in Louisiana), Ian (2022 in Florida), Helene (2024 in Florida).
The eight Cat 4 and 5 landfalls in the prior 57 years: Charley, 2004; Andrew, 1992; Hugo, 1989; Celia, 1970; Camille, 1969; Betsy, 1965; Carla, 1961; Donna, 1960.

 

[GJNorman]

Editorial: Florida can handle storms. It's climate change that's the problem.

Floridians can handle storms after the fact. State leaders must do more on the front end to address climate change and global warming

www.palmbeachpost.com

 

[JumperJack]

The only comparable beating the U.S. has taken from Category 4 and 5 landfalling hurricanes occurred in the six years from 1945 to 1950, when five Category 4 hurricanes hit South Florida.

With the U.S. taking such a beating from extreme hurricanes in recent years, it’s worth reviewing how climate change is contributing to making hurricanes worse.

You don’t think these two sentences are contradictory?

 

[GJNorman]

You don’t think these two sentences are contradictory?

No, just true comparative analysis. Even compared to the previous most severe hurricane run on record, 5 cat 4/5 canes in 6 years, Our latest 8 cat 4/5 hurricanes in 8 years is a higher rate of destructive hurricanes for a longer period of time.

 

[Bill Cosby]

Whenever I see something like data for random 6 year time periods, I automatically think those random time periods were chose to tell a story the full dataset wouldn’t tell.

And does “climate change” dictate the path of the storm? Seems like you’d have to look at data for all storms, not just those that made landfall in the continental US.

Regardless, I much prefer global warming over any of the solutions proposed by the global elite at this point.

 

[catlanta33]

So many people unaccounted for and trapped fighting for their lives.

Climate lunatics - Should have paid more taxes and believed harder.

🤡 people.

 

[bigblueinsanity]

So many people unaccounted for and trapped fighting for their lives.

Climate lunatics - Should have paid more taxes and believed harder.

🤡 people.

Lack of domestic response is shocking especially during election time. I definitely didn't see that coming.